I've been to Almería in 2002, not knowing what I saw. Today, Erwin Wagenhofer's documentaries take me back to my memories of the region.
In Wagenhofer's film We Feed The World I saw the same pictures that I took with my camera in 2002:
Participating in European Union's Comenius project, I spent a whole week in the South-East of Spain (here are our project results - actually one of the first HTML pages I've ever built, with frames and all the good stuff...).
We even made it into a local newspaper:
I was excited, and everything I saw was fine and good and beautiful and nice, like I thought my photos were:
Of course, we visited one of the plantations:
At that time, I had no clue that this was a globalized industry that brings wealth to any other country but the people in the region.
Now I know, that 80% of Spain's coast line is obstructed with uninhabited properties, just for one reason: provide value for global investments.
Almería is not only the setting for many Hollywood classics but also for the ongoing financial crisis thriller, whose victims are the ones that can only watch and pay for it.
Designing a blogging platform for Styria's Social Democrats
Anzetteln is German for instigate, meaning people can create, follow and track their own initiatives (e.g. "we want free access to universities") and geo tag them.
Every initiative has got a calendar with dates and a blog where the discussion can evolve:
Knallgrau develops design and IA for Austria Press Agency's OTS.at
Today, a project I was working on since my very first days at Knallgrau finally launched: redesigning OTS.at, a portal for press releases.
Before and after
The epicenter of the site: the press release.
Design decision: to tab or not to tab?
A little detail: we had this one part of the page that was different to the topic channels like politics, finance and the like. The extra part was about the many companies and organisations that send out press releases. But it was only on extra tab so it had to stay in the tab menu, only look different.
When I tried to seperate it using colors, gradients, borders and nothing worked, I just hid it.
And that was the solution: not showing the tab solved my whole tab problem!
Privatsenderpraxis is an association of Austria's private Radio and TV broadcasters, holding workshops and talks about the future of broadcasting. Knallgrau launched their website in May 2009.
The site features a simple and calm design:
Each topic has its own color scheme:
And every speaker has its own profile page:
Using Google Maps, you can easily find the spot where your workshop takes place:
That was Arabella.at for the last few years.
New Arabella.at in a typical news platform layout, aggregating numerous sources.
Overview for the different radio shows...
...that are blogs! The hosts write about their show's topics and discuss it with their audience.
We have Flickr Slideshows for the huge amount of party pics etc.
And of course we redesigned the weather maps, putting the map elements to the back and bring the essential information to the front.
The footer sums up the site and offers a sitemap and the navigation to others regions of Austria where you can listen to Radio Arabella.
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